The
Benefit of Pictures
Pictures are great inventions that allow us
to remember special events in our past. Wedding pictures help you to remember
the day that you said I do . . . and realize just how young you both were.
Pictures document your child’s changes from before birth and the rest of their
life. In short, pictures are awesome and are definitely an invention to be
thankful that God allowed man to make. I mean, pictures preserve memories,
moments, a landscape, a person. Yes, we should be careful that we don’t worship
pictures like graven images (it is possible to do so). We can record our
history in another form than print—one that many words just cannot fully
describe.
The
smile of your bride when she held your first child, the birthday where you were
so blessed to have great family and friends with you, the excitement of your
daughter when she gets engaged—all these moments can be “frozen” and preserved
in a picture. Let’s pause and thank the Lord for the gift of pictures and for
the inexpensive technology to do so.
